Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!gall From: gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: A Hum Domain (also: how about a hum charter?) Message-ID: <7721@yunexus.UUCP> Date: 17 Feb 90 13:40:05 GMT References: <3284@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <3285@iitmax.IIT.EDU> Organization: York University Department of Philosophy Lines: 28 mitchell@tartarus.uchicago.edu (Mitchell Marks) writes: | But it's not as though "Hum" as a short form for "Humanities" is new | and unfamiliar. Have you really not seen this frequently before? | It's not an arbitrary computer-oriented shortening originated by | oddballs on the net; it's a perfectly ordinary abbreviation that | you're likely to see in many university catalogues/timeschedules etc. In the six universities I have been associated with, I've never seen three letter codes for departments or faculties 4 and 2 letter repectively is the norm in Canada)--so you might want to revise your claim. | I reiterate the point that it can be pronounced like the name "Hume", | and in fact is widely so pronounced. Does this help anybody who is | worried about confusion with wordless-nasal-singiing? So what 'hum' can be pronounce 'poop' for all anyone cares. As I have said before--stop talking about it and start doing something about it! nrg -- "The mythology of the language machine is the mythology of a technologically advanced society which has not yet come to terms with its own linguistic self-awareness." -- R. Harris